Category Archives: Middle East

By Sharif Nashashibi Asking Muslims to apologise for al-Qaeda and IS is like asking a Brit to apologise for the English Defence League There was no shortage of “here we go again” moments in US President Barack Obama’sspeech at the UN last week. One of them was his statement that “it is time for…

by Jeremy Salt In his 1964 book The Lucky Country, Donald Horne wrote: ’Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people who share its luck.’ The phrase was picked up by politicians and used in smug ways Horne never intended. What he meant was that while others had to work hard to get ahead,…

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 26 2014 (IPS) – When U.S. President Barack Obama addressed the U.N. General Assembly Wednesday, he was outspoken in his criticism of Russia for bullying Ukraine, Syria for its brutality towards its own people, and terrorists of all political stripes for the death and destruction plaguing Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Somalia. But as…

By Ronnie Kasrils Russell Tribunal on Palestine finds that Gaza is on the brink of a genocidal apartheid. Israel and its accomplices must not be allowed to get away with the extermination of a people, writes Kasrils [EPA] Nelson Mandela frequently declared that “Palestine was the greatest moral issue of our time”. After we toppled the…

Palestinian president, speaking at UN General Assembly, vows to pursue Israeli leaders for war crimes. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has accused Israel of waging a “war of genocide” in Gaza and vowed to pursue its leaders for war crimes. The latest war in Gaza in July and August – the third war in…

By Philip Giraldi September 18, 2014 “ICH” – “Unz Review” – – Those of us who believe that the Israeli government has finally gone too far in its slaughter of Gazan civilians because the whole world, including most Americans, finally recognize something called ethnic cleansing at a level approaching genocide when they see it, should be…

By JAMES BAMFORD WASHINGTON — IN Moscow this summer, while reporting a story for Wired magazine, I had the rare opportunity to hang out for three days with Edward J. Snowden. It gave me a chance to get a deeper understanding of who he is and why, as a National Security Agency contractor, he took the…

Credit Otto Dettmer WASHINGTON — IN Moscow this summer, while reporting a story for Wired magazine, I had the rare opportunity to hang out for three days with Edward J. Snowden. It gave me a chance to get a deeper understanding of who he is and why, as a National Security Agency contractor, he took…

By Ramzy Baroud September 15, 2014 “ICH” – – A few months ago, not many Americans, in fact Europeans as well, knew that a Yazidi sect in fact existed in northwest Iraq. Even in the Middle East itself, the Yazidis and their way of life have been an enigma, shrouded by mystery and mostly grasped through…

By Richard Falk September 04, 2014 “ICH” – Contrary to much conventional thinking that treats ‘anti-Semitism’ as exclusively a form of ethnic hatred, there is a second kind of attitude that is alleged to be ‘anti-Semitism’ because it is critical, often justifiably so, of Zionism and Israel’s policies and practices. This second type of supposed anti-Semitism…